Awards
Shortlisted for The Welkin Mini 2025
for “The Heat of Fusion.”
Flash Fiction Finalist
for “Dancers.”
Pushcart Prize & Best MicroFiction nominee
for “You Drunk.”
Background
Coleman Bigelow is a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominated author whose stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals. Recent publications include: Bending Genres, BULL, Cease, Cows, Cleaver, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie and Your Impossible Voice. He studied creative writing at The University of Virginia and The New School. He received his M.B.A. from The Darden Graduate School of Business and currently serves as Head of Industry at Google in New York.
Before landing in the Garden State, he lived and wrote in Charlottesville, Louisville, New York, San Francisco and Paris. He’s now settled with his wife, three kids and two dogs in the beautifully creative town of Maplewood, NJ.
Recent writing workshops include:
GUT REAL w/Sara Lippmann
A Public Space’s Novel Workshop w/Elizabeth Gaffney
Lyrical Writing w/ Matt Kendrick
Much More Than Less w/Sarah Freligh
Writing Flash with Carver w/Tommy Dean
Flash in All Its Forms w/ Cheryl Pappas
Zoetrope & Gotham’s Advanced Fiction Writing w/Michael Ray & Michael Backus
Cleaver Magazine’s Flash Fiction Revision w/Kathryn Kulpa
Dystopian Microfiction w/Meg Pokrass
SmokeLong Quarterly’s Intensive w/ J. Sawers, Christopher Allen, Denne Michele Norris, and Elisabeth Ingram Wallace.
The Work
My writing is informed by the contrasting experiences of a childhood split between North and South and a career split between East and West. Leadership roles in healthcare, travel, media and technology provide fodder for characters struggling to define success and build connection.
